It's weird when viewin through eyes of capitalism: they did not want to keep their paying Windows 7 customers but instead tried everything to destroy Windows 7 based Windows usage. And then eventually forget there ever even was a Windows 7.Microsoft is a weird company.Here's evidence that they tried to actively destroy it:-creating a Visual Studio 2019-2022 runtime that is installable to Windows 7(notice how this now replaces the sole 2019 runtime that does not include 2020, 2021 and 2022, this 2019 is unavailable now)Making Windows 7 sluggish through updates, it worked best up until year 2014 (or 2013) but then year 2015 and 2016 updates make it a lot slower than what it used to be.Microsofts own build tools being non compatible with Windows 7 since 2022. If you create a executable project with Visual 2022 it wont work with Win7 it needs Windows 8 or later.
>>100123336>paying windows 7 customersYou're not a paying customer though. You paid them one time a long time ago, and if you just use that forever then what? They need you to pay them again. If you switch to something else it really doesn't matter because you weren't paying them anyway.
>Products have a set lifecycle>Baby duck boomer gramps get upset when he learns that nothing last forever
>>100123336they can just backport the spyware, I have no idea why you retards pearl clutch this proprietary trash so much... doesn't even have feature parity with linux
>>100123640I dont care about spying if I could get Windows 7 functionality in win10, I would happily use 10
>>100123672>I could get Windows 7 functionality in win10what can you do on 7 that 10 can't?
>>100123336Cool cat
>>100123336nobody pays for windows 7 moron, that's why they want it dead
>>100123630
>>100123336>paying Windows 7 customersPaying?If they paid at all it was a one time payment.
>>100124217It was possible to buy Win 7 as a DVD disc that came with a serial number and it was installable onto any computer (but of course two computers with the same serial cannot appear at internet at the same time, or the one that was activated later than the first one would appear as illegal copy)
>>100123336No shit sherlock. They realized this with XP.Windows 10 is in the same dogma right now. They want you on the latest.
>>100124287I think they killed of 7 in shorter amount of years than they did with XP
>>100124384Did you look it up before you decided to think?
>OH NO THEYRE CUTTING SUPPORT FOR A 17 YEAR OLD PRODUCT >NOOOOO AHHHanon no company should ever be expected to support something that long even with microsofts finances you'll understand when you get a job
>Microsofts own build tools being non compatible with Windows 7 since 2022. If you create a executable project with Visual 2022 it wont work with Win7 it needs Windows 8 or later.Windows is backwards-compatible, not forwards-compatible. You may as well complain that your new app won't run on NT 3.1.
>>100124531the joke here is that it is incompatible only because microsoft changed win64 executable requirement to have at minimum a windows 8 GUIthis means windows 7 and windows XP gui parts are not included in a modern executable they are completely removedthey did not abslutely HAD to do that but they did anyway so people wouldnt try using 2022+ software in Win7
in a few years they'll try doing it with windows 10 any way to save myself from this fate?
>>100124738Block updates.Use LTSC or Server editions.
>>100124738Linux
>>100124790fuck off shill
>>100123336this but with ms dos 5.0
>>100124811is there anything DOS 5 does better than DOS 6
>>100124738By installing Linux. I know, truth hurts.
>>100124798who pays someone to shill free stuffIt would be just like someone shilling water just regular ass water no filters no additives just water
>>100124869no such thing as free lunch, linux was confirmed to have chinese spyware on it or what was that news?
>>100123336Windows nt was perfectWhy reskin it 8+ times?
>>100124897everything has spyware
>>100124897I guess you'll just have to run BSD on a power PC or an old bulldozer then if you want to avoid spyware or globohomo back doors
and at that moment shill stopped being in denial and came clean >>100124937
>>100124897I hope you don't use MacOS then, since it was just as "affected" through Homebrew.
>>100124897>or what was that news?A maliscious maintainer spent years socially engineering themselves into a position where they could put a backdoor in a certain compression utility, only for it to be immediately discovered before it was ever pushed out to the would be victims.
>>100124897only shit distros had it, don't use arch or other garbage like that
>>100123336it costs them more to maintain windows 7 support than money is given to me of course they would shaft it. Its not weird at all especially when windows >10 have much tighter cloud integration i.e. opportunity for more service subscriptions to be sold. I am still using office 2007 fuck them.
I wouldn't say they tried to kill it, but they tried to pozz it to windows 10 levels.>>100124738>He uses W10 SAC>>100123612Microsoft literally never allowed consumers to pay for longer support. ESUs were for organizations with bulk licenses of win7 pro and above.opinion discarded LOL>>100124842>>100124790>just install de lincuckz-ACK!
>>100125291just install BSD
>paying customer>No Ms storeLmao. You probably did not even pay for the key. But the key had free upgrade to win10
>>100123336>It's weird when viewin through eyes of capitalism: they did not want to keep their paying Windows 7 customers but instead tried everything to destroy Windows 7 based Windows usage. And then eventually forget there ever even was a Windows 7.Not really. They make near zero money selling W7 in 2024. Most people who use it pirate it. I agree that Microsoft is le bad but your entire post is pure cope. Just use linux if you're such a fucking power user.
>>100125543>Just use linux if you're such a fucking power user.I'm a luddite
>>100125559All the more reason to use Linux. The only reasons to use Windows are Adobe shit and Visual Studio.
>>100123336Windows 7 was a software product. Utterly unprofitable in the long term.Windows 8 and forward are SaaS (Software as a Service). Those are profitable, and allow to fuck over the end-user at every turn.
>>100123336tl;dr Microsoft makes money by cucking you slaves, then Microsoft cucks you slaves even more to make even more moneyMaybe try something else like freedom? What Microsoft does makes 100% sense to me.
>>100123630>Product is still so much better than newer products that active willful sabotage is needed to displace it>>100124527>No company should support something that longThis crosses the line into directly trying to sink it. If a company doesn't want to support their product anymore, then they should just open source it and let it sink or swim at the whims of whatever community it has accrued. If their new product was actually better, then it wouldn't matter.>>100124897>Briefly before being pulled because someone noticed the issue and was able to diagnose it>Only if you were running unstable builds like Debian sid or rawhide afaik>Only an issue because of systemd>>100124962Arch explicitly didn't have the vulnerability even though it installed the backdoored version of the package because it didn't link openssh to lzma.
>>100123336>It's weird when viewin through eyes of capitalism: they did not want to keep their paying Windows 7 customers but instead tried everything to destroy Windows 7 based Windows usage. And then eventually forget there ever even was a Windows 7.the goal of the merchants is not to please their customers. it's to earn money and establish a monopoly with their friendly civil servants and create a dishonest propaganda that the interest of the merchant is exactly the interest of the client.
>>100123612The upgrade to 10 was free anyway.
>>100123640>doesn't even have feature parity with linuxI use linux every day. If your experience is so positive, why do you feel the need to lie about it?
>>100124261Bullshit, they started tying licenses to hardware with 7, the only licenses that were separate were corporate ones.
>>100124571>and windows XPWhich is 32 bit OS, so your executable would not run there anyway.
>>100123630oh lord that groomer slogan again
>>100125496>Just install blue screen of deathAnon... He already has that installed...
>>100123336Now they are doing everything in their power to kill Windows 10, they dont care about windows anymore, Windows 11 was created to harvest as much data as possible, especially now with AI dogshit going on, thats why they are so forceful with trying to get people off of windows 10 and onto windows 11, sad reality is a lot of normies will switch to 11 and a lot of functional computers on landfills, a part will switch to linux/mac and probably never look back, which is what im doing, fuck that faggy ass pajeet company and their software
>>100126320windows 7 turns into winxp GUI components if Aero is disabledthose components of course have been converted into 64 bit compatibility in win7so actually xp gui was not restricted to winxpalso windows server editions did not have aero but the xp gui components
>>100126827>windows 7 turns into winxp GUI components if Aero is disabledNot exactly, Windows classic isn't a 1:1 translation of XP's interface.
Can someone explain the seething hatred for windows 7?
>>100126887anyway it certainly uses somekind of components not used by aero and which seem to be compatible with winxp
>>100126905its a mysterywe dont see hatred on win8 only laughter towards it (its justified laughter too)and there is no hatred towards vista, its only pityand I dont think even xp users get hated on so much as win7 users
>>100126941I don't think anyone hates you, you just want to feel special for using it. It's just an OS, not an identity.
>>100126941Maybe the linux fags felt threatened because 7 was such a gem of an OS
>>1001269987 was overrated garbage 10 is better in every way
>>100127007still doesnt explain the seething
>>100123336Windows 7 is dead since years and baby ducks won't change that by kicking its dead body. Nowdays you have to jump through multiple hoops to boot it and fire up a working web browser. Its okay if you are an unemployed disappointment who hasn't left his basement for years but not if you are somewhat normal member of the society. People suggested a simple solution to you guys for a long time, including the rufus trick to bypass windows 11 requirements, installing ltsc or even linux but you rejected all of those out of pride, lazyness or your tech-illiteracy. You are truly the most pathetic minority on /g/. The only "people" who can go lower than you are those robo-waifu coomers.
>>100128058what is your opinion on windows xp or 2000?I heard the maker of supermium browser is trying to get it to run in win2000
>>100130071I have no strongs opinions about any windows version. Only about the retards using it.
>>100128058>go to supermium or r3dfox's repo>download and install>run a single script to get esusplease stop sneeding and get back to sucking daddy micro$haft's cock!!!!!!11111>>100130071both are based as fuck too. i applaud you if you can actually daily those in 2024.>>100127007brimstone-tier bait from the deepest depths of the poojeets' literal shithole>>100126827you mean the basic theme right? it's on a technical level basically identical to xp.
>>100123336It's not strange. They made a pretty good OS, you paid for it once. They want you to move to the next one. It's the same with everything.You buy anything, a few years later the company will want you to buy the next one. That's why everything breaks these days.>Making Windows 7 sluggish through updatesThis is industry standard for software. part of it is just "lazyness" (money grubbing and retardation) but on locked-down platforms, the intentional slowdowns are very obvious.
>>100126905I don't hate Windows 7, or really even 10. I just hate what Microsoft is doing to it's userbase. I got tired of all the bullshit and just switched to loonix
>>100123336Looks pretty dead to me.
>>100123336>Here's evidence that they tried to actively destroy it:>They didn't support it indefinitely even though they never claimed they would do that.>>100125747>If a company doesn't want to support their product anymore, they should give it away to me for free for absolutely no benefit.Nothing to see here folks, just another typical retarded seething 7igger.
>>100132224>spermiumWell, if you are a NEET disappointment then yeah, a working web browser is enough for you. Wait until your e-waste dies and try installing deadshitos on a new computer. Or try doing anything productive on your shitbox (spoiler alert: you can't). If you ever decide to get a job , you will update.
>>100123630because it is artificialthere is less difference between vista and 11 than xp and vista
>checks thread>still seething hatred with no legitimate explanation aside from fee feesI think it's a phenomena that should be studied
>>100135830groundwork of XP was laid on Win NT 4 (1995)the final form of NT 4 was win2000 (1999)xp was rewrite of 2000 with maybe 20% of new thrown invista started the generation of windowses which would evolve into 10
>>100136272>xp was rewrite of 2000more like a fucking recompile lmao>with maybe 20% of new thrown in20% being desktop wallpapers, icons, uxtheme, login screen, start menu and... oh right literally nothing else, it was just a reskin>vista started the generation of windowses which would evolve into 10yes, NT 6 was ahead of its time and it has proven itself so (we all still use it)
